University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk
Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Defusing Democracy
Central Bank Autonomy and the Transition from Authoritarian Rule
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Many of today's new democracies are constrained by institutional forms designed by previous authoritarian rulers. In this timely and provocative study, Delia M. Boylan traces the emergence of these vestigial governance structures to strategic behavior by outgoing elites seeking to protect their interests...
All International Politics Is Local
The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard the enormous regional variations. Others take the concept of sovereignty literally and treat each nation-state as fully...
Interests and Integration
Market Liberalization, Public Opinion, and European Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Integration in Europe has been a slow incremental process focusing largely on economic matters. Policy makers have tried to develop greater support for the European Union by such steps as creating pan-European political institutions. Yet significant opposition remains to policies such as the creation...
Capitalism, Not Globalism
Capital Mobility, Central Bank Independence, and the Political Control of the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Capitalism, Not Globalism shows that, while much has been made of recent changes in the international economy, the mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not changed throughout the postwar period. Challenging both traditional and revisionist globalization theorists, William Roberts...
In the Land of Mirrors
Cuban Exile Politics in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
In the Land of Mirrors is a journey through the politics of Cuban exiles since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. It explores the development of Cuban exile politics and identity within a context of U.S. and Cuban realities, as well as within the broader inquiry of the changing nature of nation-states and...
Gendering Politics
Women in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
What are the cultural and structural mechanisms that exclude women from politics in general and from local politics in particular? What meaning is ascribed to women's political activity?
Gendering Politics explores the place of women in democratic politics by means of a detailed study of women...
Backlash Against the ADA
Reinterpreting Disability Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years...
Lee Konitz
Conversations on the Improviser's Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
“Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition—a genius as rare as Bird himself.”
—John Zorn
“Hamilton’s work may...
Making Security Social
Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
While welfare has been subject to pronounced criticism throughout the twentieth century, social insurance has consistently enjoyed the overwhelming support of European policy makers and citizens. This volume argues that the emergence of social insurance represents a paradigmatic shift in modern understandings...
by Jean McGarry
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Siri is a legacy admission, rich and spoiled and destined to flunk out of her freshman year at college. Esther, her roommate, is a scholarship student from humble means, brilliant and driven to succeed.
Brought together by chance, the girls soon become partners in a struggle to find their way in...
With All Deliberate Speed
The Life of Philip Elman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
"With All Deliberate Speed is just wonderful. It gives the reader fascinating insights into the Roosevelt era, the Supreme Court, the Justice Department. It is funny, and endearingly human. Three cheers!"
-Anthony Lewis, New York Times columnist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Gideon's...
The Politics of Purity
Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Spearheaded by Harvey Washington Wiley, the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 launched the federal regulation of food and drugs in the United States. Wiley is often lauded as a champion of public interest for bringing about a law that required healthful ingredients and honest labeling. Clayton Coppin...
Monetary Politics
Exchange Rate Cooperation in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
A single currency--and the necessary prior condition of exchange rate cooperation and the stabilization of exchange rates--has been an elusive goal of many European leaders for more than twenty years. While much of the literature on exchange rate cooperation within the European Union focuses on the...